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QUOTES ABOUT HAIKU

In haiku the juxtaposition or “confrontation” of entities produces a tension charged with energy that generates an insight, intuition or felt-depth of an aspect of reality; it is a movement, a birth, that leads to a new level of awareness...

[Prompted in part by a passage of C.G. Jung’s].- Robert Spiess

A haiku is a profound testimony that a most humble object of nature when put into the simplest of aesthetic forms can become a revelation.